An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
The Boston Advanced Leadership Programme
Realising your Full Leadership Potential and Effectiveness
Course Overview
Boston, in the US state of Massachusetts, is synonymous with the highest levels of academic excellence. With more than 52 institutions of higher education, Boston is home to some of the most prestigious centres of learning in the USA including Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis and Northeastern universities and the legendary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), etc. Its pioneering research into leadership, management, organisational strategy, marketing and psychology make it the world’s leading centre of excellence for senior management development.
This stimulating GLOMACS training course entitled, The Boston Advanced Leadership Programme encapsulates the work of such Boston academic giants as John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Michael Porter, Howard Gardner, Alfred Chandler, Clayton M. Christensen and renowned experts such as Saleem Ali, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Rakesh Khurana, Amy Cuddy, etc., and applies their principles and techniques in a straightforward and highly practical way.
Consequently, this GLOMACS training programme will look in some depth at: displaying outstanding leadership, mastering the psychology of the workplace, developing a winning corporate strategy, introducing sustaining and disruptive innovations to your products and services and manifesting a compelling executive presence and gravitas at all times.
This GLOMACS Boston Advanced Leadership Programme will highlight for you:
- The five leadership approaches that are required in today’s organisations
- The psychology of influence, good communication and motivation
- The essence of effective strategic thinking, planning, implementation and monitoring
- The principles of disruptive change compared with competitive positioning
- How to manage the first impressions you make, choose your subsequent behaviours and curate your reputation to clearly signal your leadership legitimacy
Training Objectives
This GLOMACS training course is designed to help you:
- Select the most appropriate leadership style in any situation
- Understand the psychological functioning of individuals, groups and organisations
- Master the key elements of corporate strategic management
- Apply sustaining and disruptive innovation best practice to your services
- Clearly signal your suitability, over time, to be appointed to the most senior positions in your organisation
Who should Attend?
This GLOMACS training course is suitable to a wide range of Ambitious Professionals , but will greatly benefit:
- Leaders, Managers and Supervisors aspiring to more senior positions
- Individuals who are making the transition to a senior management team or board-level role
About Saudi Glomacs
At Saudi GLOMACS, we specialize in delivering world-class training courses in Saudi Arabia and across various international locations. Our training courses are tailored to meet the unique demands of Saudi Vision 2030 and the Human Capability Development Program, focusing on empowering Saudi citizens and enhancing workforce skills. We offer diverse courses spanning leadership, management, engineering, and technical disciplines to cultivate expertise and drive professional growth. Our flexible learning options—whether in-person, online, or in-house—ensure accessibility and convenience for individuals and organizations alike.
With over 30+ years of experience through the GLOMACS global network, we are committed to delivering innovative, results-driven training solutions. Our expert instructors combine industry knowledge with dynamic teaching methods, fostering practical skill development and long-term career success. By choosing Saudi GLOMACS, you're investing in personal excellence and contributing to the Kingdom’s sustainable economic growth and vision-driven transformation.
Training Outline
DAY 1: Displaying Outstanding Leadership
- Recognising the Differences between Management and Leadership
- Appreciating the Five Essential Leadership Approaches and Corresponding Styles
- Displaying Transformational Leadership Behaviours
- Comprehending the Corporate Governance Responsibilities of the Board
- Demonstrating Ethical Behaviour, Living Your Values and Maintaining Your Personal Integrity
- Developing Your Political Awareness and Mastering the Five Core Political Skills
DAY 2: Mastering the Psychology of the Workplace
- Using Personality Insights to Communicate and Influence Others Better
- Displaying Personal Power and Self-confidence in All Situations
- Optimising the Development and Management of Teams
- Evolving Organisational Cultures and Applying the Neuroscience of Change
- Managing Your Own and Others’ Attitudes, Emotions, States and Behaviours
- Understanding the Nature of Organisational Psychopaths and Limiting their Detrimental Effects
DAY 3: Developing a Winning Corporate Strategy
- Understanding the Five Elements of Strategic Management: Strategic Thinking, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Emergence
- Competitive Positioning: The Five Processes that Populate a SWOT Analysis
- The Value of Scenario Planning in Designing Detailed Stories Around Different Possible and Plausible Futures You Might Be Faced With
- Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create a Strategy Matrix, Strategy Map and an Implementation Plan
- Prioritising Your Initiatives, Filtering Them and Balancing Your Portfolio
- Implementing and Monitoring the Plan and Utilising Emergent Trends
DAY 4: Using both Sustaining and Disruptive Innovations to Evolve and Grow your Products and Services
- The Four Kinds of Innovation: Disrupting vs. Transforming Businesses
- Using Lateral Thinking Techniques to Increase Creativity, Innovation and Inventiveness
- The Nature of ‘Innovation-driven Growth’: ‘disruptive’ (stealthy) vs. ‘sustaining’ (incremental) innovations and ‘Low-end’ vs. ‘new-market’ footholds
- Product / Service Performance Trajectories and Customer Demand Trajectories
- Succeeding as a Disruptive Innovator / Defending Against a Disruptive Challenger and Ensuring Your Organization is Capable of Disruptive Growth
- Common Pitfalls in the Application of Disruption Theory and Its Incorporation into Wider Strategic Planning
DAY 5: Manifesting Executive Presence, Gravitas and Charisma
- Appreciating the Need to Display Executive Presence and Its Relationship to Organisational Politics
- The Three Dimensions of Executive Presence
- Displaying Gravitas, Charisma, Impactful Communication and An Appropriate Appearance
- Specific Challenges Faced by Female Leaders and Managers
- Chairing Effective, Efficient and Satisfying Meetings
- Researching, Designing and Delivering Compelling and Memorable Presentations
Certificates
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Accreditation
GLOMACS is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
All Training Seminars delivered by GLOMACS by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
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